Activities Commission presented the seventh iteration of its hit program “I Heart Female Orgasm” in Wadsworth Auditorium on Sept. 5. Both females and males alike crowded into the theater, anxious to discover what kind of event accompanied such a blunt, even risqué title.
The program promotes both sexual education and woman’s empowerment, but with quite a humorous twist.

Author and sex educator Dorian Solot created the program, and she performed it alongside Connor Timmons.

“Different aspects that we talk about tonight are going to be relevant––or not relevant––to different people’s lives in different ways,” Solot said. This set the tone for the remainder of the talk. Topics varied from female sexual pleasure, sexual disease and even abstinence.

“Women need access to really good, accurate information about our bodies and our sexuality,” Solot said. “If we don’t have access to really good awareness, how will we know the symptoms of something like an STI or our readiness to be sexually active?”

Solot discussed her own struggles with sexual maturity, self-identity and breast cancer, which she battled at the age of 26. Now in remission, Solot has never been more comfortable with her body and she recommended that all people––male and female alike––learn to appreciate themselves similarly.

Timmons took a more gender-neutral approach on the subject, addressing how sexual education classes for both males and females are taught with such a rigid structure that even a driver’s education class provides a more flexible learning environment. Both presenters used comical computerized images that mocked the typical diagrams used in the traditional classroom atmosphere and provided accurate information on the human body.

“The outcome from it has been so positive,” event coordinator junior Olivia Wolfram said. “If you can take what they say and realize that you can choose whenever you are ready to have sex, the program will have succeeded.”

Merchandise sold at the event varied from t-shirts to books promoting “I Heart Female Orgasm.” Twenty-five percent of the proceeds will go directly to Breast Cancer Action, an organization that confronts the epidemic and works towards future cancer prevention.

“We hope to host ‘I Heart Female Orgasm’ in years to come,” Wolfram said. “It brings great things to this campus.”